Film Details

The Long Day Closes

United Kingdom | 1992 | Terence Davies

Here’s a new 35mm color print of Terence Davies’ exquisite memory piece in which he returns to the world of his childhood—1950s working-class Liverpool. Bud, an impressionable 11-year-old living with his mother and older siblings, finds his dreams nourished at the neighborhood movie house. The film’s nostalgia, rendered in one stunning image after another, is buttressed by an eclectic, evocative soundtrack of hymns, popular songs, classical music, radio broadcasts, and movie soundtracks. “The work of a master filmmaker.” –Time Out (London).